JAVA CLASS SCHEDULE

1. Introduction to Java Applications.
Lightweight introduction to programming applications in the Java programming language. Introduction to basic programming concepts and constructs.

2. Java Applets.
Introduction to applets. Introduction to basic concepts and terminology of object-oriented programming.

3. Control Structures.
Focusing on the program development process. Introduction to fundamental data types and control structures used for decision making and repetition. Examining counter-controlled repetition, sentinel-control repetition. Introduction to Java's increment, decrement and assignment operators.

4. Control Structures: (continued).
Continuing of the discussions of Java control structures. Explanation of the labeled break & continue statements with live-code examples.

5. Methods.
Deep look inside objects. Exploring of methods. Discussion of class-library! methods & programmer-defined methods. Random numbers generation. Discussion of the dice game of craps.

6. Arrays.
Explanation of the processing of data in lists and tables of values. Discussion of the structuring of data into arrays of related data items of the same type. Presenting examples of both single-subscripted arrays and double-subscripted array's. Investigation of various common array manipulations, printing histograms, sorting data, passing arrays to methods & introduction to the field of survey data analysis. Discussion of elementary sorting and searching techniques and the presentation of binary searching.

7.Object -Oriented Programming & Java.
Implementing of abstract data types. Focusing on the essence and terminology of classes & objects. Creating & destroying objects. Communication objects with one another. Packaging software as reusable component. Discussion of accessing class members, enforcing information hiding with private instance variables, separating interfaces from implementation, using access methods and utility methods, initializing objects with constructors, declaring & using constant references, composition, the this reference, dynamic memory allocation, static class members, package statement, creating reusable packages.